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Auction Name Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library Part V, Total Sales (GBP) 2,951,798.00
Auction Date December 10, 2024 - December 10, 2024 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 1,645,100.00
Sale Number #L24405 High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 2,319,900.00
Total Lots 242
Sold Lots 141 Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 2,338,900.00
% of Lots Sold 58.26% High Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 3,313,000.00
Unsold Lots 101 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 89.10%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1168 ORIGENES.

Opera omnia [edited by Erasmus].

1545 GBP 80,000.00 - 100,000.00 GBP 406,400.00
1005 ANACREON.

Ek ton Anakreontos tou Tiiou. Anacreontis Teii Odae.

1552-1554 GBP 200,000.00 - 300,000.00 GBP 254,000.00
1239 VIMERCATI, FRANCESCO.

Francisci Vicomercati Mediolanensis in octo libros Aristotelis de naturali auscultatione commentarii. Et eorundem librorum e Graeco in Latinum per eundem conversio.

1550 GBP 70,000.00 - 100,000.00 GBP 228,600.00
1018 AUGUSTINUS, AURELIUS.

En habes optime lector absolutissimi doctoris Aurelii Augustini, opus absolutissimum, de Civitate dei, magnis sudoribus emendatum ad priscae venerandaeque vetustatis exemplaria...

1522 GBP 26,000.00 - 32,000.00 GBP 203,200.00
1047 CAESAR, GAIUS JULIUS.

C. Iulii Caesaris rerum ab se gestarum commentarii. De bello Gallico libri VIII. De bello Civili Pompeiano libri III. De bello Alexandrino liber I. De bello Africo liber I. De bello Hispaniensi liber I. ...

1543 GBP 50,000.00 - 70,000.00 GBP 101,600.00
1201 SICULUS FLACCUS, FRONTINUS AND OTHERS.

De agrorum conditionibus, & constitutionibus limitum, Siculi Flacci liber I. Iulii Frontini lib. I. Aggeni Urbici lib. II. Hygeni Gromatici lib. II. ...

1554 GBP 80,000.00 - 100,000.00 GBP 101,600.00
1092 EUSTATHIUS THESSALONICENSIS.

Eustathiou arxiepiskopou Thessalonikis parekbolai eis tin Omirou Iliada.

1542 GBP 70,000.00 - 100,000.00 GBP 88,900.00
1132 JOSEPHUS, FLAVIUS.

Lhistoire escripte premierement en Grec par Josephus le Juif autheur tresnoble & ancien. Et en apres mise en Latin don't elle a este depuis faicte Francoyse. ...

1530 GBP 60,000.00 - 80,000.00 GBP 76,200.00
1230 VEGETIUS RENATUS, FLAVIUS.

I quattro libri di Vegetio Renato della medicina de cavalli et altri giumenti overo dell'arte di maniscalchi, tradotti della latina nella lingua volgare.

1544 GBP 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 GBP 76,200.00
1129 JEWEL, JOHN.

A defence of the Apologie of the Churche of Englande, conteininge an answeare to a certaine booke lately set foorthe by M. Hardinge, and entituled, A confutation of &c.

1567 GBP 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 GBP 69,850.00
1050 CASTRO, ALFONSO DE.

Adversus omnes hareses.

1543 GBP 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 GBP 63,500.00
1139 LANDALFUS SAGAX.

Eutropii insigne volumen quo romana historia universa describitur, ex diversorum authorum monumentis collecta. Quanto vero maior codicum sinceritas eo tempore fuit, quam est hodie. ...

1532 GBP 50,000.00 - 70,000.00 GBP 63,500.00
1039 BOEHME, JOHANN.

Gli costumi, le leggi, et l'usanze di tutte le genti, raccolte qui insieme da molti illustri scrittori per Giovanni Boemo Aubano Alemanno, e tradotti per il Fauno...

1543 GBP 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 GBP 50,800.00
1140 [LE COURT, BENOIT].

A Sammelband of 20 works gathered and bound by Le Court,

late 1490s to 1520s, GBP 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 GBP 50,800.00
1161 MASSARI, FRANCESCO.

Francisci Massarii Veneti In nonum Plinii De naturali historia librum castigationes & annotations.

1537 GBP 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 GBP 48,260.00
1037

BIBLE. NEW TESTAMENT. LATIN. Evangelium. Secundum Matthaeum, Secundum Marcum, Secundum Lucam, Secundum Johannem. Acta Apostolorum. ...

1541 GBP 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 GBP 44,450.00
998 ACHILLES TATIUS.

Narrationis amatoriae fragmentum e Graeco in Latinum conversum, L. Annibale Cruceio interprete.

1544 GBP 30,000.00 - 40,000.00 GBP 38,100.00
1154 LUTHER, MARTIN.

Der Ander Teil der Bucher D. Mart. Luth., darin alle Streitschrifften, sampt etlichen sendbrieven an Fursten und Stedte etc. zusamen gebracht sind, ...

1551 GBP 30,000.00 - 40,000.00 GBP 38,100.00
1187

REGUM FRANCORUM IMAGINES, quam proxime fieri potuit, ad vivum expressae, Una cum eorum vita, unicuique Imagini per compendium subiecta.

1554 GBP 30,000.00 - 40,000.00 GBP 38,100.00
1009 [ARISTOTELES] PLATO and ARATUS OF SOLI.

Ek Platonos Timaoiu tmima to to Kikeronou peri pantos biblio sumphonoun. Ex Platonis Timaeo particula, Ciceronis de universitate libro respondens.

1542 GBP 26,000.00 - 32,000.00 GBP 33,020.00
1165 MORE, THOMAS, AND DESIDERIUS ERASMUS.

De optimo Reip. statu deque nova insula Utopia libellus... Epigrammata... Epigrammata. Des. Erasmi.

1518 GBP 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 GBP 31,750.00
1233 VERGILIUS MARO, PUBLIUS.

Publii Virgilii maronis opera.

1502 GBP 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 GBP 30,480.00
1025

BIBLE. LATIN. Sacra Biblia ad LXX. interpretum fidem diligentissime tralata.

1526 GBP 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 GBP 27,940.00
1029

BIBLE. OLD TESTAMENT. PROPHETS. HEBREW. [Hebrew title:] Prophetae priores. Iosue, Iudicum liber, Samuel, Regum II.

1544 GBP 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 GBP 27,940.00
1085 DIONYSIUS HALICARNASEUS.

Antiquitates Romanae [translated by Lampugninus Biragus].

1480 GBP 24,000.00 - 30,000.00 GBP 27,940.00
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